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Very often people wonder why my primary research interest over the last two years has focused on Islam, then I decided to post this note on why and how I started a project on this topic Much of the inspiration … Continue reading
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During his recent election campaign, British Prime Minister David Cameron launched a conservative manifesto calling for the advent of a “big society” or in other words empowered the citizenry and a more responsible society. Following rioting in Tottenham and other … Continue reading
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More HIV-positive people are being criminally prosecuted for not disclosing their HIV status before sexual encounters—sometimes even when there is no intent to harm and no transmission occurs. Out-of-date laws and inconsistencies around the world make the spectrum of what … Continue reading
© 2011 Marco Scalvini. All rights reserved.
“You have to understand that all revolutionaries understand today that there is no way of overthrowing modern society except by violence, for the very good reason that this society defends itself by repression and violence. I am defending a revolutionary … Continue reading
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The Berlusconi era may be nearing its end, but media populism remains a danger across Europe and requires new political forms of organisation to combat it Across Europe, as a result of the political establishment’s multiple failures in tackling the … Continue reading
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If you were a semiotician you would say that images and words use different systems of meaning, that images can say things that words cannot and vice versa. Semiotics is the study of signification and it’s a useful tool for … Continue reading
© 2011 Marco Scalvini. All rights reserved.
At approximately 11:35 p.m. on May 1, speaking from the East Room of the White House, President Obama announced “to the American people and the world” that “justice has been done,” that he had personally “authorized an operation to get … Continue reading
© 2011 Marco Scalvini. All rights reserved.
Much of the public debate in Europe about the war in Libya focuses on the persistent issue of western double-standards concerning humanitarian intervention. This debate revolves around three main criticisms of the ‘coalition of willing’: hypocritical changing attitudes towards Libya; … Continue reading
© 2010 Marco Scalvini. All rights reserved.
how commercial advertising has changed the representation of HIV/AIDS As a consequence of pharmaceutical advancements, HIV is no longer described in terms of the absence of health or presence of illness, and advertisements promoting anti-AIDS medications commercialize idealized and desirable … Continue reading